Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1887-09-08

as they could do with at first were erected
very chcaply There was the awful pos
Sihility of failure. aud the old wOmcn's
home always before them.
Mrs Pratt read from her hen book I:
An acre Of ground will bc enough yard
room for one hundred fowls No more
than fifty should be kept in one house.
For that number, a building should be
thirty feet long. ten feet wide, eight feet
high in the front and five feet in the rear,
with a >loping roof Marian how does
that strike youf"
II think understand it,, murmured her
friend.
There must he separate apartments for
the sitting hens, and"
oh come, now. Must we have parlor
bedrooms for the old hen>F'
Something like that take it. Listen :
There must he such provision that the
broodng fowls can not yet together and
quarrel r.
Like women in boarding house, mur-
INJURED Miss Platt
And light and break their eggs aud
20 learn the bad habit Of eating them "
continued Mrs Pratt.
She put the book down
Wen begin with one hundred hens
Each one will make proft Of a dollar a
year That will bcsloo. We cant live
OH that"
There's our vegetable garden and our
bees
Yes We might raise nearly all for our
own eating It'~ one Of the aspiration, of
ms life - have an onion hcd
They bought scrub chickens AZ first, and
ali the Plymouth Rocks they could afford
Their early chicks were ont in NAV. Mis-
trl H.
from the nest II eccmcd la her that the
hen was out Of temper, She edged around
70 the rear The hens head was around
before her
"Qnaw-aw-awk, said the hen.
Oh. dear. said Miss riatt.
II lions are in the way, well >lay
them said Mrs. Pratt.
Miss Plat put ont her hand timidly
Chjckcy. chickcy, IIcnnv, hcnny :" She
raaNcd She pattcd the hens tail q Pct
h,r
chlckey dartcd out her sharp bcak, ami
.ook a piece ont Of Miss Plati's finger
Mercy '~ she exclaimed. Il didn't know
a,us would bite Susan, dii YOU
No replied Susan
Mis- Plaii rctrratcj. She put strip nf
plaster ulnn the wounded finger aHd di,H
au 4 pa.r of gloves. Pale hut 'lct' rmiurl
~u-au follow IN. close behind. She ad-
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